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Definition: CLAIR-OBSCUR |
CLAIR-OBSCURNoun1. See Chiaroscuro. |
Etymology: Clair-obscur \Clair"-ob*scur"\, noun. [French expression See Clare-obscure.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: CLAIR-OBSCUR |
| English words defined with "CLAIR-OBSCUR": Chiaro-oscuro. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CLAIR-OBSCUR": Clare-obscure. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CLAIR-OBSCUR" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (chiaroscuro). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Clair-obscur (1988) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-i-l-o-r-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: carbolics, circulars, corbicula, cursorial, orbicular. | |
-3 letters: ascorbic, bucolics, calorics, carbolic, caribous, circular, cribrous, rubrical. | |
-4 letters: aboulic, arbours, bailors, barrios, boccias, boracic, bucolic, burials, calicos, caloric, caribou, carious, carolus, cirrous, corrals, corsair, crucial, cubical, curaris, curiosa, labours, oculars, oscular, ouraris, railbus, ricracs, rubrics, sacculi, scribal, scurril, suboral, uracils. | |
-5 letters: abulic, airbus, arbors, arbour, bailor, barrio. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 41 49 52 2D 4F 42 53 43 55 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01000001 01001001 01010010 00101101 01001111 01000010 01010011 01000011 01010101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L A I R - O B S C U R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 0041 0049 0052 002D 004F 0042 0053 0043 0055 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)374635435215493653375552 |
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